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1. While I was in exile, my father, Gloucester, was blinded by a cruel Duke, and upon the evil act, someone in presence protested and drew his sword on the Duke, only to be slain by his Duchess. Who had the goodness of spirit to stand up to the awful man, giving up his life in the process?
2. This evil act of blinding my father was not unavenged, because the man who gave his life managed to injure the Duke mortally - later on it is revealed that the Duke died. Which evil Duke is this?
3. After I fled, the action came to me, sadly enough. A servant of Goneril, the eldest and cruelest of Lear's daughters, tried to apprehend my father for being a traitor. I stopped him and was enforced to kill the man. Which foolish, petty, wicked man did I have to dispatch to protect my father?
4. Evil will be paid, one time or another, and the horror continues. It's hard to say if I could have done anything to prevent any of this, but here goes with the next evil person being killed. The Duchess of the evil Duke from earlier was poisoned by her sister possibly in an attempt to eliminate the competition for my brother's affections. Which Duchess was this?
5. The sister who poisoned that Duchess was another evil Duchess, the cruelest of King Lear's daughters, whose conscience may have caught up with her. Why do I think and hope for that? Well, unpleasantly enough, the woman committed suicide after killing her sister. Who is this woman whose husband, Albany, was one of the few non-evil characters in this story?
6. Yet another death that I partially caused - who knew if my flight caused this? Perhaps if I had stayed I might have prevented this? But my father did die in my presence after we had formally re-united. How did he die?
7. Finally, I revealed my identity to my brother, the man who had convinced me to disguise myself in a self-exile for all this time. The man who tricked me by saying that my father was incensed against me, keeping me safely out of the way for his villainy. I knew I had to challenge and kill him, and I did, successfully. What is this brother's name, yet another casualty of all this mayhem and madness?
8. Then, the ball just didn't stop rolling. More horrors upon horrors - the King walked in with his youngest daughter's lifeless form in his arms. My cruel brother, before his death, had tried to save her from the noose, but was too late in his repentance. She had been hanged. What was this poor woman's name, once a Queen and now departed?
9. King Lear, trying to come to terms with his youngest daughter's death, expires while mourning over her body. When I try to revive him, who keeps me back and tells me to let his spirit go, saying "Vex not his ghost, O let him pass"?
10. While I was disguised and exiled, I took on an identity which helped me in my flight from it all. Which identity was this, in which I fooled the King, my father, and more into thinking I was a mad vagabond?
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